Digital Collections, The Library of Trinity College Dublin

Have you ever been curious as to how we digitise a medieval manuscript for Digital Collections? One of our photographers, the wonderful Caroline Harding, has written a blog covering just that topic. You can read it here: https://bit.ly/3y2hzoW

You may notice some changes being made to Digital Collections in the coming weeks.

On Tuesday 19th May we will release a new beta version of our repository.

This new interface will feature limited collections at first.

Please bear with us as we work behind the scenes to move all of our digitised material to this new platform.

While this happens, you will still be able to access all of our existing content on the old Digital Collections at the following URL: https://www.tcd.ie/library/digitalcollections

Hear ye! We’re excited to announce Trinity’s newest free online course: The History of the Book in the Early Modern Period.

Through the course learners will have the opportunity to investigate rare treasures such as the engravings of Anthony Van Dyck, early editions of Aesop’s Fables and the bestselling Nuremberg Chronicle. Frontispieces, title pages, annotations, printers’ devices, and many more parts of the book are examined from this period. At the end of the course, learners will be able to describe how the early modern book trade operated, and understand how the invention of the printing press changed religious, scientific, medical and political views of the world.

Many of these resources have been newly digitised for this course and uncover this fascinating time of innovation and social change.

Sign up today to start on Nov 18th: http://bit.ly/2o1Emlb

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The History of the Book Course: 1450-1800 - FutureLearn

🎄🎉 Wishing our followers a merry festive break from all of us in Digital Collections. 🎄🎉
Illustrations from Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Etchings by Leech; wood-engravings by W. T. Linton. TCD OLS B-3-376, available here: http://bit.ly/1NtxjUB

Marking the centenary of the Battle of the Somme today, we are delighted to launch a project we have worked on with colleagues across the Library, lead by those in M&ARL.

Fit as fiddles and as hard as nails, Irish Soldiers’ Voices from the Great War contains digitised and transcribed diaries, letters and memoirs from the Great War all free to access at the webpage below.

They are voices from the front line from seven Irish officers. The youngest was 20 years old, Charles Wynne from Wicklow. His sister Emily Wynne’s writings are also included. She wrote a ‘home front’ diary from Greystones.

The authors served on both Western and Eastern Fronts. Three of them were Trinity graduates; two never came home and two received the Military Cross. Among them are Lieut. Henry Crookshank, father of Trinity’s History of Art Professor, Anne Crookshank, and Captain William ‘Pat’ Hone, descended from the famous Hone family of artists Nathaniel and Evie Hone. He was father of author Leland Bardwell who died this week.

Please share with any and all you think may be interested!

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About 'Fit as Fiddles' - Fit as Fiddles and as Hard as Nails ‘Fit as fiddles and as hard as nails’ – the phrase comes from diarist Stanley Beresford Mundey’s description of the effect on soldiers of a regime of hard work and scant food. Whatever was the original author’s meaning, to the modern ear this unsettling phrase – hard as nails – chimes with what we n...

Where does our freedom come from? Should it apply to all people? Why was ‘Independence’ a dirty word when it first appeared?

Discover the birth of Independence in this newly launched exhibition from the Library of Trinity College Dublin in partnership with University of East Anglia.

This exhibition presents newly discovered evidence that the concept of Independence in the English-speaking world emerged out of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, half a century earlier than believed.

More information on the exhibit and partnership with Dr Polly Ha of UEA can be found on the M&ARL blog here: http://bit.ly/2989Nic

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For , a photograph of a nurse in the Adelaide uniform circa late 1800s.

The Adelaide Hospital was established in 1839 at Bride Street in Dublin as a response to the needs of the very poor in the slum areas around St Patrick's Cathedral and the Liberties. A Protestant institution, funded by charitable donations, the hospital was situated at Peter Street from 1857 until 1998, when it became part of the new Adelaide and Meath Hospital, incorporating the National Children's Hospital at Tallaght.

The Adelaide nurse has always had a distinctive uniform, the style may have changed over the past 150 years, but the blue cotton with white hail spot fabric remains to this day.

View more from the Adelaide School of Nursing Exhibition: http://bit.ly/1H0JvpM

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Adelaide and Meath Hospital Tallaght National Childrens Hospital Tallaght

We’ve been a bit quiet around these parts lately, but for good reason! We’ve been busy in our darkrooms, working on the photography for an exciting Early Irish Manuscript project funded by the Bank of America.

Four manuscripts were chosen for conservation, research and digitisation; the book of Dimma, Codex Usserianus Primus, the Book of Mulling, and the Garland of Howth. Very shortly these will all be freely available in high resolution on Digital Collections.

For further information on the manuscripts and the project as a whole, check out the blog at the link below.

The Early Irish Manuscripts Project Evangelist portrait thought to be St Matthew.
IE TCD MS 60 Book of Mulling: Folio 12v

It’s ! A day to reflect on what it means to be Irish.

You can read and examine the copy of the proclamation the Library holds, in high resolution, at the link below!

The provisional government of the Irish Republic to the people of Ireland Digital Collections, The Library of Trinity College Dublin. Browse in full colour and high resolution our 7,000 treasures, including the full Book of Kells, all FREE.

Newly uploaded to Digital Collections, MUN-MC-42 is a beautiful book of architectural drawings for the War Memorial and Reading Room in Trinity College Dublin, designed by the Irish architect Sir Thomas Manly Deane.

The book contains 21 pages of drawings including plans, elevations and transversal sections of various parts of the two buildings.

Thomas Manly Deane and Richard Caulfield Orpen were invited in 1920 to submit designs to act as memorial to members of the college who died in the war of 1914-18.

The commission must have been particularly poignant for Deane, since among those commemorated was his son Thomas Alexander David Deane, killed at Gallipoli.

For more information and to explore the volume in high resolution, visit the link below.

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Trinity College Dublin War memorial and reading room Deane, Thomas Manly, 1851-1933 Trinity College Library. Browse in full colour and high resolution our 7,000 treasures, including the full Book of Kells, all FREE.

The fascinating story of the Library's copy of the Proclamation, on Changed Utterly this week...

Among the Nations: Poblacht na hÉireann Probably the most iconic example of Irish printing, ‘The provisional government of the Irish Republic to the people of Ireland’ was read aloud by Patrick Pearse outside Dublin’s General Post Office…